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boygenius, 'Emily I'm Sorry'

One of three new boygenius tracks, this Phoebe Bridgers-led song captures the feeling of being both carried forward and entrapped by love.
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Emily is a name destined to come alive in song. Its sonorous syllables have fallen from the tongues of , 's Syd Barrett and , to name just a few; the name invokes dreaminess, claims the name for sorrow as she and her musical siblings in spin out a story of the kind of love that gets you lost and keeps you that way.

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